Samay

In Sanskrit, Samay means "appointed or proper time, right moment for doing anything." On a general parlance, samay is a unit of time.

Meaning

In current usage, samay means "time" in Indian languages such as Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Gujurati and others.

In Jainism

Meaning

Samay represents the most infinitesimal part of time that cannot be divided further. The blink of an eye, or about a quarter of a second, has innumerable samay in it. For all practical purposes a second happens to be the finest measurement of time. Jainism however, recognizes a very small measurement of time known as samay, which is an infinitely small part of a second.

Measurements

The following are measurements of time as adopted by Jainism: Indivisible time = 1 samay
Innumerable samay = 1 avalik
16,777,216 avalik = 1 Muhurt
30 Muhurtas = 1 Day and night
15 Days and nights = 1 Paksha (fortnight )
2 Pakshas = 1 Month
12 Months = 1 Year
Innumerable years = 1 Palyopam
10 millions of millions of Palyopams = 1 Sāgaropam
10 million of millions of Sāgaropams = l Utsarpini or 1 Avasarpini
1 Utsarpini + Avasarpini = 1 Kālchakra (One time cycle).

Samay (band)

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Samay are a band based in Leeds, UK, formed by musicians from India and Europe who take the traditional music of India and combine it with jazz, flamenco, samba, funk and chill-out.

Overview

The band consist of Jesse Bannister (UK), Soumik Datta (India), Giuliano Modarelli (Italy), Bhupinder Singh Chaggar (India) and Kenneth Higgins (UK) who replaced former bass player Javier Geras (Spain).

Samay play original compositions and since the beginning they started performing in important festival such as Moor Music Festival, Garforth Arts Festival, Seven arts-Leeds and City of London Festival.

In 2007 they performed in television shows such as the Nikki Bedi's Show on BBC Asian Network and at Doordarshan TV UK.

In 2008, they released their first album, Songs for a Global Journey.

In order to support the album, they played at the Musicport World Music Festival, Beverley Folk Festival, Darbar Festival, Dingwalls and London Jazz Festival.

Samay (mythology)

The Kumpo, the Samay and the Niasse are three traditional figures in the mythology of the Diola in the Casamance (Senegal) and also in Gambia.

Multiple times in the course of the year, i.e. during the Journées culturelles, a folk festival in the village is organized. The Samay invites the people of the village to participate with the festivity.

He can run very hard and with his stick he mandates strict order in the community. He knows everything that happens in the village.

He can be considered the ceremony master of the traditional dance event.

Other Mythological Figures